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Shneur Zalmen and Sari (nee Hertz) Gansburg (Crown Heights)
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Young Jewish Leaders Convene in Moscow
Over 70 young people from Russia and the CIS participated last week in a leadership training seminar in Moscow, part of of the School of Leadership program run by Yahad, the FJC’s programs platform.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Mendel Itkin, 61, OBM
With sadness we infom you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Mendel Itkin OBM, a much beloved teacher and Mashpia in Sydney, Australia. He was 61 years old.
In Virginia, ‘Friends’ Bridge the Generations
Noam Cahana, a sixth-grader at Rudlin Torah Academy in Richmond, Va., was very candid about the whole experience, from start to finish. “When my dad first advised it, I was saying to myself: ‘This is something only for Scouts.’ To my surprise, I really enjoyed it.” He was talking about an after-school visit to an elderly residential home as part of a new program called Senior Circle, courtesy of Friendship Circle.
Oholei Torah Holds Men’s Auction Event
Oholei Torah PTA hosted an all men’s event benefiting their annual auction this Motzai Shabbos. The crowd enjoyed an auction viewing along with a lavish buffet dinner, sushi and wine bars.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Chani Weber, 7, OBM
With great sadness and shock we inform you of the very untimely passing of Chani Weber OBM, the 7-year-old daughter of Pomona Shluchim Rabbi Dovid and Esty Weber.
Baby Girl!
Dovi and Yachy (nee Lefkowitz) Reich (Monsey, NY)
Weekly Living Torah Video: Would the Rebbe Agree?
In honor of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s wedding anniversary on 14 Kislev, this week’s Living Torah program is themed around marriage. In this clip, Rabbi Shmuel Lew recalls that his father-in-law, R’ Zalman Jaffe, tried every angle he could in an effort to convince the Rebbe to officiate at his daughter’s wedding, a practice that the Rebbe had ceased several years earlier.
Twins! Boy and Girl!
Yoni and Ahuva (nee Greisman) Almagor (Crown Heights)
Shluchim Visit New Crown Heights Mikvah
On Monday, the final day of the International Kinus Hashlucim, Vaad Rabonei Lubavitch conducted a Yom Iyun (Seminar) on the issue of Building and Maintaining a Kosher Mikvah, as per The Guidelines of the Rebbe Rashab, which ended with a tour of Crown Heights’ new women’s Mikvah – Mei Chaya Mushka.
Migdal’s Rabbi Grossman Inspires Seminary Girls
For the second consecutive year, Rabbi Yitzchok Grossman, Chief Rabbi of Migdal HaAmek, visited the Chaya Aydel Seminary (CAS) in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Rabbi Grossman spoke to the young women about the year in Seminary, and how it will impact their lives forever.
We All Have Stones, We Need a Yaakov to Unload Them
What was Yaakov doing with the stones? Why did they become one? How do we emulate this? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Vayeitzei.
Video of the Rebbe’s Prophecy Goes Viral
A seemingly unremarkable video of the Rebbe distributing dollars in 1988 has been spreading like wildfire on social media, after it was recently discovered what the Rebbe’s words – understood by no one at the time – were remarkably prophetic.
Boruch Dayan Ho’emes: Mrs. Chana Muller, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Chana (Jeanette) Muller, OBM, of London, UK, matriarch of a large family of Chabad Chassidim and Shluchim all over the world.
Weekly Story: Helping All Jews
In the beginning of 5575 (1815), the Czar granted that the first few Jewish colonies were established in the distant Ukraine. However, besides for being allowed to live and work the land itself, they were given nothing else; no money or equipment to work with. There were no houses, no infrastructure; everything had to be built from scratch.
